C’mon guys, let’s just let people who broke the law off the hook, eh?
Via CNS News:
(CNSNews.com) – “Immigration is a key element of our country’s success,” Jeb Bush, a possible contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, told the National Christian Hispanic Leadership Conference in Houston on Wednesday.
An advocate of immigration reform, Bush said the 11 million people who are in the country illegally “should come out from the shadows and receive earned legal status.”
He said the United States is the only country that “has the chance to become young and dynamic again,” all because of immigration. “This is not the time to abandon something that makes us special and unique,” he added.
Bush opened his speech by telling the crowd, in Spanish, that they are “the hope of the country.”
He then introduced himself to the crowd as a loving son and proud husband of a Latina wife (who inspired him to get a degree in Latin American studies). He described his faith, including his conversion to Roman Catholicism; and he generally outlined his position on the issues, including the economy, education, and immigration — the platform on which he seems likely to run.
Of the Republicans mulling a run for President, Bush is the most liberal on immigration. In fact, his views are the same as President Obama’s.